Three Ways to Play Starhawk, Available on PSN Next Tuesday

As many of you know, the team here at Lightbox Interactive has been hard at work developing all of the free Starhawk Updates to help support the Starhawk Community. With today’s announcement, we’ll help grow that community even more with something that a ton of players from around the world have asked for — a digital-download version of Starhawk, and not just the original version, but one that is packed with all of the awesome updates we’ve made since our initial release!

Yeah, you saw that right. We now have three, three ways for you to download the exact type of Starhawk experience you’re looking for on September 25th!

First you can get the complete Starhawk experience by downloading the Full version for $39.99. Another option — and this is an insane deal — is the Starhawk: Multiplayer-Edition for $19.99. This includes one of the best PlayStation 3 multiplayer experiences and all of the updates we’ve released since the game originally launched.

Last, but certainly not least, is a another killer deal for all PlayStation Plus members. You guys get the Starhawk: Single-Player Campaign for free. Yeah, that’s right, free.

And because I’m a tease, I’ll leave you with this: We have something else very tasty in store for PS Plus Members, so keep your eyes on the blog for another announcement very soon.

But wait… there’s more. As you know just about a month ago we released the Starhawk 1.03 Update that had a ton of new features, including two completely new — and free — maps on the planet of Cypress. The team and I were so stoked to see how happy the Starhawk community received it, that we’re excited to release our Starhawk 1.04 Update on September 25th with more free awesome-sauce, including three new gameplay modes!

Okay, so those are the new hella-fun gameplay modes, but there is a ton of other stuff in the Starhawk 1.04 Update as well. We’ve been following all of the community feedback and we’ve made a large number of changes. In my last blog post I wrote this massive wall of text covering all the various new things we added. So this time, I’m going to try and be more efficient on what should matter to you most.

Blurg! Even with my super-effective condensing, the list of new stuff is still looooong — but that’s a good thing for the Starhawk community! If you want the extended version of this list with all the juicy details, head on over to our LightBox Interactive Dev-Blog or the official website at Starhawkthegame.com.

Oh man, still so much to talk about. Focus Dylan. FOCUS!

If you remember back in May when we released Starhawk, I wrote a blog post about our close partnership with Major League Gaming to put together a major Starhawk Tournament for the community with great cash-money prizes. Well our good friends at MLG have been hard at work and I am wicked-excited to say that it’s “GAME-ON” for the Starhawk MLG Tourney, with $20,000 in cash prizes. Head over to the Starhawk MLG site for all the rules and details! Whatever your competitive level, there is an entry spot for everyone, and a number of different opportunities to win.

The Starhawk MLG Tourney is a two-month long tournament with $20,000 in cash prizes at stake for not only the grand champions, so listen up. The primary tournament will revolve around an official Starhawk MLG ladder. The more you win across all online game modes, the higher you’ll rank on the MLG Starhawk ladder. At the end of this two-month phase, the top 16 ranked players will be chosen to form two “Super-Teams” who will battle it out in a live-streamed grand finale, with eight players crowned the victors of the Starhawk MLG Tournament!

As a secondary option for all players to win, the MLG has also been really cool about planning four mini-competitions along the way for smaller $500 prizes. These “quick challenges” will take place over various weekends and award players with the highest score for a particular stat such as “Most Headshots” or “Most Pod Kills.” This is a great way to increase a player’s odds of winning a piece of the big cash prize.

So, get ready for the Major League Gaming Starhawk Tournament, go hone your skills and keep your mind on your money and your money on your mind!

“But Dylan… what about Starhawk DLC?”

Don’t worry! While we have been focusing on making sure we get you guys all of the free content first, we certainly didn’t forget about the DLC — we have a truck load of it ready to go live for all of you on September 25th as well.

However, as I’ve already established in this blog post, I am sometimes a tease. So… I’m not going to list any of the DLC just yet. We’ll make another blog post about it very soon! Let me leave y’all with this one DLC hint. Here’s a piece of concept art showing a couple different design ideas for our new DLC Build & Battle structure. I’m not going to tell you what it does but I can say it’s awesome.

I’m really thankful that PS Plus exists. I don’t regret getting it at all. I wanted to try this game back when it came out, but I couldn’t afford it at the time then naturally I forgot about it. Now I can try the campaign and see if what I think of the game. I might buy the Multiplayer is I like the game enough. Thank you guys once again for taking good care of PS Plus members :)

1. Will the Single Player offer for PS plus members have trophies? If so, will it have a platinum?
2. Will the single player campaign count towards next month of the Instant Game Collection, or is it just be an “extra” for this month?
3. What’s the GB size of the Single Player Campaign?

Please respond to these questions, as I’m very interested in this!
Thanks!

@53, i’m also curious about your second question. I thought we were only getting Borderlands, Scott Pilgrim, and Double Dragon for this month. Its nice to see a new free game, but i hope this isn’t taking a slot for October’s games. I’m thinking its an extra.

Naughty Dog dropped the ball with that awful Fortune Hunter Season pass with skins, avatars and recicled maps.

When multiplayer comes to the table, LightBox Interactive is the best dev team with Sony right now! I know you all are doing the best you can, and I know for sure that Starhawk will become the best online multiplayer for PS3, easy. For me, it already is!

I’m playing since the first beta and I bought it day 1, and I’ll keep supporting LBI, amazing job!

My only request is: please consider a Vita cross-controler DLC. The uplink already happen in a tablet equipment, there is no other game in PS3 that fits better this feature than Starhawk with all Build&Batle system, it would be a perfect fit. Maybe a quick chat with guys at Bluepoint Games? :)

I think the new B&B structure is gunna be a base Evolution type feature or should I say DeEvolution
LOL
the concept art looks great
Starhawk has been my go to game since beta .. and I look forward to all the
goodness that you guys have in store for us.

So looking forward to losing in the MLG tourney . .It’s gunna be Awesome
(So many great players gunna be rollin . .and I imagine Orsen is already a finalist)

Thanks for the update, it really wasn’t to long at all ..

All that is left is to figure out how many sick days I have at work and start my
Set up for time off to play STARHAWK

Ok, like that there is new B&B…perhaps one day there will be some vehicles that require more than one player (the old boss vehicle idea of yor). I know that some did not like the dropship, but some did and that APC was in high demand.

Noice!!! Ever since I got PS+ I have more games than time unfortunately. =( But you can rest assured i’ll be getting the single player and more than likely multiplayer down the line once my game queue shrinks. BTW, I agree with you Dylan. LBP Vita ROCKS!!!! And also, being part of the PSASBR Beta on Vita I am stoked with the amazing games I am starting to see on Vita. Definitely don’t regret being a day 1 Vita owner. Thank you guys and Sony for listening to us gamers. Keep making great games! =)

Awesome news Dylan ,and everyone at Lightbox. I played the beta back before the game came out ,but i had a hard time swallowing the fact of buying 60 to even 40 bux for a game that was just mainly multiplayer.

But i’ll definitely be grabbing the mutliplayer edition for 20 since the single player is free. Wish more games would take this sales model. I rather be given the option to buy what i want out of the game ,or buy the whole thing. This is what should of been done with KZ3 ,but oh well hopefully when KZ trilogy comes out all 3 games will be PSN downloads as well.

Now you guys just need to get some Vita & Move support into this game ,and i’d be a real happy camper

With the trend toward downloadable titles on the rise, I really hope to see more of this separating the single player from the multiplayer, regardless of whether any part of it is offered free to Plus members.

As a casual gamer, I usually can’t keep up with other players in online shooters, so I avoided this game when it was released (though the look of it and gameplay interested in me) because there seemed to be a big emphasis on the multiplayer aspect of the game, which I’m sure is great–just not my cup of tea.

Holy Dynamite rolls! I’ve been saying Sony should do this for ages now! I hope to see this happen to all games released on the PSN/SEN eventually. More options to play games how you want to. Also, free single player for PS+? That’s just amazing.

So I can basically get Starhawk for $20 with the PS+ offering of the campaign? That’s great. I haven’t played the game in a while, so I’d love to have the PSN version to more easily get back into the game.

Although you cannot tell us what the DLC is, could you tell us the price of the DLC is on Tuesday?
So that i know whether or not I will be buying the DLC or another game?
(I intended to get Borderlands 2 tomorrow, but if SH DLC is more than $10 then i’m getting that instead)

I can’t talk about the price but I *CAN* tell you that SONY has done an excellent job with the pricing of the Starhawk DLC and our approach to how we handle DLC to keep the player community together is going to be a hit with players I think!

“Its important to note though, that the SP and MP versions are separate apps”

So if you’re a Plus sub. and get both, are you basically downloading the game twice and having it take up twice the space on your hard drive? Because obviously there’s a lot of shared content between SP and MP. Or are the separate versions smart enough to share content files?

Keeping them as separate apps seems inefficient – especially given PSN’s less than desirable download speeds. Why wouldn’t you just offer a Plus member only $20 discount on the proper full version so we just have one download? It’s great that you’re giving the SP campaign away for free, but for people who want the full game, you’ve actually made things LESS convenient for Plus members. That needs to be addressed.

This is great!!! I already had the game from day one, but with these options, the community will grow faster! And not to mention the new updates to play with. Thanks LBI!!! Please keep supporting us!!!

We always put a lot of thought into the business model, because it is after all, a business. But we firmly believe the best business is to provide the player with good support and a good game — that’s job #1.

So if you like the solo campaign — which you get for FREE because you are a PlayStation Plus Member — maybe you’ll give the Starhawk Multiplayer Edition a try or some of our super-tasty DLC!

This is how its done, thank you Lightbox and Sony for working together to do something that makes so much sense. This is a great value also 3rd person shooters are my favorite, but never got to pick this up though I loved the beta. Sometimes “There can only be one” lol. I commend you guys and gals, and can’t wait to be apart of the Starhawk community.

Crap, I saw this earlier on the EU blog and was really hoping it wouldn’t come over hear. I played the beta and hated it. Now it’s going to take up a slot in our instant collection and not even include they only reason anyone plays it,the multiplayer. Do you really think anyone plays online shooters for the story? This might as well just be a demo and should not take up a spot in the PS+ schedule .

I have kind of boycotted the game…I love seeing all the things that have and are coming out for it, but I am disappointed I never received the items for playing/owning warhawk or the beta of Starhawk…tried to fill out the form from the website multiple times and no answer. I Don’t know how else to contact anyone except via here. Would be nice to here ssomething, my roommate is the same, never That his in game items but it hasn’t stopped him from putting in countless hours since he is level 50